Attorney General Loretta Lynch held a press conference Wednesday to highlight her department’s efforts to crack down on Medicare fraud. But one reporter used the opportunity to ask Lynch about the controversial decision to redact the transcript of the 911 call made by Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen.

In the original transcript, released Monday, Mateen’s references to his allegiance to ISIL and leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadihad been removed, sparking outrage from House Speaker Paul Ryan and several key Republicans. Critics said it was the latest example of the Obama administration’s reluctance to acknowledge the shooting was a product of radical Islam.

In response to the Republican’s inquiries, the decision was made to release the entire transcript.

“The goal is, of course, the greatest transparency,” Lynch said. “The initial thought was we did not want to provide a further platform for the propaganda of the killer. Once it became an issue, we decided we would go ahead and release the full transcript.”

Lynch would not disclose who made the decision to redact the transcript.

“I’m not going to go into the detail of the process behind it…but once it became a distraction, we released the whole transcript,” she said.

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While denying any involvement in the decision to redact information from the transcript, the White House stated that the FBI had the lead role in it’s release.

FBI Director James Comey told reporters last week that he chose not to use the shooter’s name. The reasoning behind his decision was to keep others from committing similar acts for a twisted notion of fame and glory.

“I don’t want to be part of that, for the sake of the victims and their families, and so that other twisted minds don’t think that this is a path to fame and recognition,” Comey said.

Although the transcript contains no anti-gay references, Lynch hinted that along with “online radicalization,” another motive for the attack was hate and an anti-gay bias.